胡适与中国图书馆事业

Hu Shi and Chinese Librarianship

胡适在图书馆服务方式、图书馆藏书建设、图书馆员文化和业务素养方面具有先进、实用的学术观点,并倡导编制馆际联合目录,注重图书馆馆舍建设的科学性与合理性,大力推广四角号码。同时,他还与北京大学图书馆、上海东方图书馆、美国葛思德东方图书馆有着密切的关系,推动了这三所图书馆的发展。他在中国近代图书馆转型过程中的突出贡献为:注重图书馆协会和基金会的建设;注重推荐、发掘和培养管理人才;保护历史文献;注重教育救国。

Hu Shi held an advanced and practical academic point of view in library service mode, library collection construction and librarians＇ cultural and professional capacity required. He proposed to build the interlibrary union catalog, put high value on the scientific and rational construction of libraries and vigorously promoted four-corner numbering. Meanwhile, he had tight connection with Peking University Library, the Shanghai Eastern Library and the GeSiDe Library in the U.S., and enhanced the development of those libraries. His outstanding contributions in Chinese modern library transformation process are as follows： he valued the construction of the foundation and association of the library, emphasized the recommendation, discovery and cultivation of talents, protected historical literature, as well as saving the country through education.